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FUNCTIONS OF THE COPYRIGHT BOARD REGULATIONS
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FUNCTIONS OF THE COPYRIGHT BOARD
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 415.06
FUNCTIONS OF THE COPYRIGHT BOARD
REGULATIONS
7th November, 2014
LEGAL NOTICE 395 of 2014.
The title of these regulations is the Functions of the
Copyright Board Regulations.
In these regulations, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings
"the Act" means the Copyright Act;
"the Board" means the Copyright Board established under article
45 of the Act;
"Member State" means Member State of the European Union;
"the Minister" means the Minister responsible for the protection
of copyright and neighbouring rights;
"orphan works" means -
(a) works published in the form of books, journals,
newspapers, magazines or other writings contained in
the collections of publicly accessible libraries,
educational establishments or museums as well as in
the collections of archives or of film or audio heritage
institutions;
(b) cinematographic
or
audiovisual
works
and
phonograms contained in the collections of publicly
accessible libraries, educational establishments or
museums as well as in the collections of archives or of
film or audio heritage institutions; and
(c) cinematographic
or
audiovisual
works
and
phonograms produced by public-service broadcasting
organisations up to and including 31 December 2002
and contained in their archives,
which are protected by copyright or neighbouring rights and which
are first published in a Member Stat e or, i n the absence of
publication, first broadcast in a Member State, if none of the
rightholders in that work or phonogram is identified or, even if one
or more of them is identified, none is located despite a diligent
search for the rightholders has been carried out and recorded.
By virtue of these regulations, the Minister has assigned
the following functions to the Board
(a) to determine the amount of compensation due in
disputes involving orphan works;
(b) to order a person to pay the amount of compensation
fixed by it.